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![]() Dr Mustafa FetouriMiddle East Monitor |
This 5 July marks 60 years since Algeria got its independence from France, after an occupation that lasted over 13 decades, from 1830 until 1962, only...
In a statement issued in the earlier hours of 20 June, Stephanie Williams, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, drew the curtain on the Cairo...
What is behind the sudden rush by four Arab states to normalise relations with Israel after decades of animosity, and what do countries like the...
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) is 58 years old this June, while the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 110th birthday last...
President Kais Saied of Tunisia is still going, sometimes with an apparent strength, despite all the rejections and disdain he has received lately...
The British Empire once ruled over a quarter of the world's population, from North America to India and from interior Africa to the Middle East. This...
In the shadows of the war in Ukraine the Biden-Harris administration has released what amounts to a policy – but less than a detailed strategy –...
The European colonisation rush of conquering other peoples across the world had its own narrative and justifications to make its case for itself, and...
According to the United Nations roadmap adopted in November 2020, Libyans should have cast their votes to elect a legislative and president on 24...
Over the last few months, Libya's Internal Security Agency (ISA) has rounded up seven young Libyans, accusing them of very serious crimes including...
Whether France is voting, commemorating D-day or debating French identity in terms of Republic Values, Algeria is always present in some way. It is...
NATO as an organisation and through its thirty individual members has been doing its utmost to help Ukraine against Russia's invasion ever since...
It is inconceivable that last week's Negev Summit could have taken place without Saudi Arabia not only knowing about the meeting but also blessing it....
The current political impasse in Libya is unlikely to be solved over the next two months. By June, it is likely to become even more complicated...
On 2 March, 141 UN member states voted to "condemn" Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, calling it a serious violation of the UN...
Over the last two weeks, the United Nations Special Advisor on Libya, Stephanie Williams, has been under sustained attacks across social media....
On 1 March, Libya's Tobruk-based Parliament voted in a new cabinet led by former Interior Minister, Fathi Bashaga, and its 29 ministers, six State...
Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine, going on for over a week now, has been condemned across the world. However, there are countries that...
Late last January, French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said that Mali's new authorities was "illegitimate and takes irresponsible measures"...
African Heads of States and governments meeting at the African Union's Summit (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 5 February decided to revoke...
The reappointment, earlier last December, of Stephanie Williams as Special Advisor on Libya to the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio...
Already exhausted in the Syrian mediation efforts, Staffan de Mistura, has just been appointed, by the United Nations Secretary-General, as his...
Fighting corruption in state institutions and the public sector remains the top priority in Algeria this year as it hopes to improve the domestic...
Tunisia began 2022 just as troubled as it ended the previous year, in which the milestone was marked on 25 July by a President who believed, and...
The handouts are not meant as loans to be paid back, but simply free money given to people to help them get married. Governments, around the world,...
On 24 December, the United Kingdom embassy in Tripoli, Libya, issued a statement on its Twitter and Facebook accounts that, at first, looked like a...
A delegation of seven Libyan parliamentarians, headed by deputy speaker Fawzi Al-Nuwairi, visited Ankara last week and met with President Recep...
On 6 December, the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, appointed Stephanie Williams, nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by some Libyan...
If Libyans really go to the polls as planned, on 24 December, it will be a moment of history-making and a new reality in the conflict ravaged...
Tunisia's President, Kais Saied, vehemently denies what he did in Tunisia is, literally, a constitutional coup, as his adversaries claim. The...